- Generosity begins and ends with God...it is FOR God.
- Generosity is not about the needs that we meet, and all about the God we serve. It's not even as much about the lives we touch, as it is about the honor we deflect to God.
- One of the things that's apparent in this series on Radical Generosity is that generosity is utterly imperative for the Christ follower, so much, that if someone is truly following Christ, it is impossible for them to remain not generous.
Christ is the most generous person to ever live.
God is the most generous being that has ever existed.
If those are your examples and you really follow them, it is IMPOSSIBLE to do that without being generous, first to God and then even more to God by giving to others.
- It's also apparent to me that for the church not to talk about money is almost criminal from a spiritual standpoint.
- What if we met challenges in our life with the predisposition to GIVE and not the predisposition to hold on to what we have? In other words, rather than talk myself INTO being generous, then we should talk ourselves OUT of being generous.
- What if we first budgeted what God gets, then what others should get and then we lived on the rest, rather than doing exactly the opposite?
- I've never seen anywhere in Scripture that we have been given the blanket right to dictate the use of what God has asked us to give...not to others and not to God...yet, we still feel the need to dictate that, yet call ourselves generous. If a purpose is dictated, it is dictated by God.
Before we can be truly generous, we have to understand something.
Generosity is not merely about the relinquishing of possession, but also about the relinquishing of control.
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